Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ludmila, 20, Tonia, 13; and two boys, Feodor, 14, Nikolai, 22. All were quickly picked up except Nina who was found swimming after a half hour's search. Two other adopted daughters are Mrs. William Moritz of New York and Mrs. Alexander Lastchencoff of Detroit. Admiral McCully, a bachelor of independent income, adopted the seven when he was special agent for the Department of State in the south of Russia. He was aided by Olga Alexandra Krundisheva, a refugee whom he subsequently (1927) married, brought to the U. S. In the New York Times appeared the following advertisement...
...collection includes the only remaining book from John Harvard's library, a ponderous volume entitled, "The Christian Warfare against the Devill, World and Flesh. Wherein is described their nature, the maner of their fight and meanes to obtaine victorye. By John Dowane, Bachelor in Divinity and preacher of God's word...
...using spears and harpoons. Last spring Indians killed 2,000 of a herd of over a million and thus collected their lawful share of the sealing rights. In the summer natives of the Pribilof Islands are hired by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries to drive inland thousands of bachelor bull seals, knock them over the head, stick them through the heart. Down to St. Louis go the skins to be sold at auction by the Government. Last week the U. S. auctioned off some 15,000 skins, collected $282,640. Of this, 15% will be paid to Canada...
Washington society is dissected under a chapter entitled "Boiled Bosoms" with the Gann-Longworth and McLean-de Ligne feuds recounted (TIME, Dec. 15 et ante, May 13, 1929). Tittle-tattle: Bachelor Senator Tydings of Maryland playing "footie" with sedate ladies; Mrs. Trubee Davison, wife of the Assistant Secretary of War, smoking a pipe; Daisy Harriman trimming Senator Walsh's walrus-like mustache...
Governor Roosevelt proposed that $20,000,000 be raised by a special 50% increase on income taxes. A $10,000 per year married man would pay an additional $26, a $100,000 per year bachelor $1,162. The Governor held that those "who are fortunate enough to have taxable incomes" should bear this burden proportionately. This fund would be administered through a temporary non-salaried commission. If public work can be found, jobs will be given the needy. If not, local welfare officers would purchase and give to them "food, clothing, fuel and shelter." Declared Governor Roosevelt: "Under no circumstances...